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It's really quite a terrible book, by quite a terrible man. Yet there are many reasons why it is so highly regarded in our culture, primarily pertaining to its propaganda value.
https://redsails.org/asimov-on-1984/
https://redsails.org/on-orwell/
Thank you for sharing these links, this is some very interesting context to Orwell and his writing. It seems I read 1984 quite naively, though some things did seem off even then.
I think you mean "because every collective world government treated it as a how-to guide"
No, I meant what I wrote. I'm not entirely sure what you mean with "collective world government."